In 2007, Mum's symptoms of dementia first became very noticeable in the form of unusual behaviour such as barricading doors, tying up gates with handkerchiefs, calling the police all the time to imagined intruders and obsessing over her two cats. But even years before that, she'd made bad judgments with money, selling her house to a conwoman for $100,000 less than it was worth and wasting money on employing tradesmen to carry out unnecessary work. She only became seriously forgetful in 2010.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

A Strange Co-incidence

When we go to Collegians Club or the Italian club for lunch, we nearly always meet up with Olive and Jim. I thought they were younger than Mum, but I checked out their date of marriage on the Births & Marriages website and I found they were married one year after Mum. I noticed they were married in Liverpool N.S.W.

So I said to Jim as we were getting coffee for the 'patients', "I was born in Liverpool where you were married, at the private hospital in Railway Street." Jim nearly dropped his cup. He said "My first son was born there!"

Comparing notes further we discovered that Olive and Mum had their babies only 13 days apart in that same hospital!

So that gave them something to reminisce about. What an amazing co-incidence.